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Why math gives protection?
Hajdúszoboszló
· April 17, 2026
Ferenc Kovács · Bitcoin Miskolc
Number blindness
Let's say we count
4 numbers per second
.
Nonstop. Day and night.
1 million
≈ 2.9 days
1 billion
≈ 7.9 years
10 billion
≈ 79 years
500 billion
≈ 3,961 years
And Bitcoin works with numbers on the order of 10
77
.
Our brains aren't built for this.
10
77
This is how many possible Bitcoin private keys exist.
The Milky Way contains ~10
68
atoms.
That's as many as all atoms in
a billion Milky Ways
combined.
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